Just simply beautiful. The sounds of the meadowlarks were like a symphony.

Come forth into the light of things:
let Nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive
and even spiritual satisfaction.
- Edward O. Wilson

The golden sun has gone, the busy day is done.
Twilight has come and with it peace draws near
To dwell an hour within my garden walls, while in
The lambent sky the first pale stars appear.
The wheeling shadows that so slowly marked the hours
-MARIE NETTLETON CARROLL

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou, who changest not, abide with me.
- Henry Francis Lyte, 1793 - 1847

Trees are the earth's endless
effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked
off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue,
others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed
all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and
the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke
them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.
- Mark Twain

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.--Anne Frank

I go to nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in order.
--John Burroughs

"Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love,
time is eternity"
~Henry Van Dyke

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
- Rumi

God painted the earth and sky
But I think he used Texas as
his palate.